A comparison of PS3 and 360 as media players
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The author added 360 support and consolidated contributions since December last year. It is a secondary/unofficial feature. The name will remain as "PS3 Media Server" and Xbox 360 changes will be tracked under an umbrella bug item.
It seems there are too many deviations from standards to make seamless cross platform support work (e.g., MS's proprietary formats, private extensions and broken uPnP/DLNA implementation).
EDIT: Open-ended media services is not an easy project. The scope can spin out of control if not managed well. As easy to use as PMS is, there are still many issues to fix and stuff to polish for PS3 alone. Be patient.
It seems there are too many deviations from standards to make seamless cross platform support work (e.g., MS's proprietary formats, private extensions and broken uPnP/DLNA implementation).
EDIT: Open-ended media services is not an easy project. The scope can spin out of control if not managed well. As easy to use as PMS is, there are still many issues to fix and stuff to polish for PS3 alone. Be patient.
I'm hoping the new version will fix some of the "black-screen" MKV videos when using TSMuxer. I watched some of the original Star Wars movies in 1080p, but I had to transcode them using MEncoder. AVISynth/MEncoder resulted in a "data corrupted" message, TSMuxer resulted in me hearing sound correctly but having a black screen, only just "MEncoder" worked properly.
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BD-R is listed as being compatible, so I would say yes.
What do you measure this ability with? It's very fast, and it supports most configuration and compression types of MP3 (and a few other formats), and it finds the album and track names online just as all the other software does, really.
I have no complaints ... If anything, I'd wish the playback features were a little more fleshed out - like I miss 120x speed and time searching when playing back mp3s (podcasts in particular).
Sound quality of the encoded MP3's, as compared with those produced by Itunes/WMP and LAME.
Anyone try it with a 360 yet?
Ah, ok. In that case, I certainly have no complaints!
So from what I read, PS3 Media server can play back dvd's ripped from a raid drive either as a single ISO file, or as a complete file structure. Has anyone tried this? I'm curious if one works better than the other, and if it works well all around. I'm mostly blu-ray now, but we still have about 40 or so dvd's like the complete Miami Vice series (legit) that I wouldn't mind tossing onto the raid unit for convenience.
Hmm didnt get the complete video structure thing to work for me with menus?
But no trouble playing back the kids movies.
Kudos for the Miami Vice thing, you just moved a notch or 2 on the coolmeter
I am hoping for a HiDef release
Are the dvd menus supposed to work? That would be neat if true but I couldn't get those working either, although the movie played fine. It just lists all the dvds "titles" and you pick and play accordingly.
Kudos for the Miami Vice thing, you just moved a notch or 2 on the coolmeter
Hell yeah, I'll be first in line to buy the complete series on blu-ray
New version of ps3mediaplayer available. Nice improvements and includes now the unofficial support for xbox360.
I've a couple of questions regards PS3's BRD playback. The first is how do you stop watching so you can resume from the same place? Watching Spiderman 2, whether I stop, pause, or anything, it always starts playback from the beginning.
Secondly, is there any noise reduction option in PS3 that I'm missing? I flicked through an AV mag reviewing BRD players and they said of PS3 that it was now a bit dated, had a lot of noise, and lacked 'three dimensionality'. At that I put the mag back on the shelf and sneered. But comments about extracting and displaying a third dimension of content never recorded and presented on a 2D display aside, Spiderman 2 is riddled with distracting noise. I can well believe other players with noise reduction produce a better picture. PS3 has options for DVD playback but nothing comes up for BRD playback. Is this actually an area Sony don't want to address in software because it helps promote more profitable standalones?
Secondly, is there any noise reduction option in PS3 that I'm missing? I flicked through an AV mag reviewing BRD players and they said of PS3 that it was now a bit dated, had a lot of noise, and lacked 'three dimensionality'. At that I put the mag back on the shelf and sneered. But comments about extracting and displaying a third dimension of content never recorded and presented on a 2D display aside, Spiderman 2 is riddled with distracting noise. I can well believe other players with noise reduction produce a better picture. PS3 has options for DVD playback but nothing comes up for BRD playback. Is this actually an area Sony don't want to address in software because it helps promote more profitable standalones?
Some discs don't support resume at all due to java making the resume implementation less than easy.
As for noise reduction blu-ray picture is supposed to be sent to tv as it's encoded in disc without the player doing any adjustements(other than scaling if needed) hence preserving the directors vision. Noise reduction(if needed) is supposed to be applied when mastering the disc. Purists think blu-ray has each single pixel on disc as the director intended, don't mess with the artistic vision
On the other hand many movies are criticized for having over aggressive noise reduction and hence soft image. So perhaps doing the noise reduction on player would be sensible as that would let user to choose to either have less detailed image or more noise.
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The spider man series in general recieved high marks for video quality.
The noise you see can be 2 things, video noise from your TV/Display caused by being wrongly adjusted or just not very good, or "film grain".
One of the qualities of good Blu-Ray transfers is actually film grain. There has been a tendency to apply noise filters on some titles, while it removes noise it also removes details and on some extreme cases causes the movies to have a plastic like look.
The film grain amount in several Blu-ray films are way overdone. I couldn't stand it myself watching on a monitor since such things are a bit more visible becouse of the IQ. But Avivo has customisable global de-noise so I get minimal IQ loss but greatly reduced film grain, so much better but I feel your pain.
Btw could you watch Blu-ray movies through Linux OS and software player and if so perhaps de-noise could be available there?
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